| Name | CVE-2016-4483 |
| Description | The xmlBufAttrSerializeTxtContent function in xmlsave.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a non-UTF-8 attribute value, related to serialization. NOTE: this vulnerability may be a duplicate of CVE-2016-3627. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-503-1, DSA-3593-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 823405 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libxml2 (PTS) | buster | 2.9.4+dfsg1-7+deb10u4 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2.9.4+dfsg1-7+deb10u6 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u4 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
Minor issue, only when using libxml2 using recovery mode
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/c97750d11bb8b6f3303e7131fe526a61ac65bcfd (v2.9.4)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766414